Iceland offers loans to shoppers struggling to buy food. If you're wondering if this is a new low for the UK, you're not alone. This is probably what you are thinking.
How on earth does this work?
Sure, we always take out bigger loans. I'm in. car loan. However, there is a slight difference. I don't eat cars. When you run out of food, you will need another loan. So basically one shop is on for his two weeks. Poverty is finally over!
What the fuck?
Yes. There is a Dickensian hint to him borrowing between £25 and £100 for basic groceries, even without interest. You might want to take your warmest jacket to the pawn shop. Or go door to door and ask if they'd share some coal or some delicious bacon crust.
Is this some kind of solution?
I have a strange financial situation where sometimes I'm completely skinny and suddenly I'm fine If so, it might work. But as we said, you may need another loan soon. It's unlikely you'll go from minimum wage to work at an investment bank in the maximum two weeks it takes to eat 100 pounds of food.
What about the poor unqualified ones?
It is clear that in Iceland you cannot get a loan unless you can repay it. In all fairness, this is correct. But if you can't get a loan, you'll probably have no food and the humiliation of telling people 'he couldn't get a £25 loan from Iceland'. It's almost a disgrace to be caught "messing" with sheep.
Isn't this the government's responsibility?
``Ensuring the citizens have enough to eat'' should definitely be on the government's ``to do'' list. Especially in a financial crisis. Tories are famously against "handouts" for ideological reasons, but last week they did it all because they're either busy pushing their ambitions or they're on a bloody vacation .
Can you only eat Icelandic food?
Of course. Iceland won't be much of a problem, so you can spend your loan on Sainsbury's. Better be a fan, and the famous £2.50 kebab meat pizza comes in a stuffed crust version.
